Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE): Assistance for Arts Education (AAE) Program, Assistance Listing Number (ALN) 84.351A
- Posted
- August 11, 2025
- Closed
- August 25, 2025
- Program funding
- $13,000,000
- Expected awards
- 4
- Cost sharing
- No
- Instrument
- Grant
- Assistance listing
- 84.351
- Category
- Education
- Archives
- September 24, 2025
Program funding history
Awards made under Assistance Listing 84.351 across FY2025–FY2027, from public federal spending records.
- FY2025 obligated
- $27.5M
- FY2026 obligated
- $22.2M
- FY2027 (to date) obligated
- $0
- Awards in window
- 30
Top recipients: John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Center for Educational Innovation Inc, Young Audiences, Inc., National Performance for Education Corporation, Douglas Indian Association
Source: USAspending.gov · refreshed October 2026 · Program page: awards, recipients and the opportunities under this listing →
Synopsis
Note: Each funding opportunity description is a synopsis of information in the Federal Register application notice. For specific information about eligibility, please see the official application notice. The official version of this document is the document published in the Federal Register. Please review the official application notice for pre-application and application requirements, application submission information, performance measures, priorities and program contact information.
For the addresses for obtaining and submitting an application, please refer to our Common Instructions for Applicants to Department of Education Discretionary Grant Programs, published in the Federal Register on December 23, 2024 (89 FR 104528) and available at www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/12/23/2024-30488/common-instructions-for-applicants-to-department-of-education-discretionary-grant-programs.
Purpose of Program: The AAE program promotes arts education for students, including disadvantaged students and students who are children with disabilities, through activities such as (a) professional development for arts educators, teachers, and principals; (b) development and dissemination of accessible instructional materials and arts-based educational programming, including online resources, in multiple arts disciplines; and (c) community and national outreach activities that strengthen and expand partnerships among schools, local educational agencies (LEAs), communities, or centers for the arts, including national centers for the arts.
Assistance Listing Number: 84.351A.
Who can apply
- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Eligible Applicants: To be considered for an award under this competition, an applicant must be one of the following:(1) An LEA in which 20 percent or more of the students served by the local educational agency are from families with an income below the poverty line;1 (An LEA must show that at least 20 percent of children ages five to 17 that reside within the LEA's boundaries are from low-income families based on the most recent LEA poverty estimates provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. The Census LEA poverty estimates are available at https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/saipe.html.(2) A consortium of such LEAs;(3) A State educational agency;(4) An institution of higher education;(5) A museum or cultural institution;(6) The Bureau of Indian Education;(7) An eligible national nonprofit organization; or(8) Another private agency, institution, or organization. Application Requirement: Applicants that are LEAs must provide, in the application, data from the most recent U.S. Census as evidence that the LEAs meet the statutory requirement that 20 percent or more of the students served by the LEA (or for each LEA within a consortium of LEAs) are from families with an income below the Federal poverty line. Note: Other applicants that are eligible under the definition of an LEA, such as County Offices of Education, Education Service Districts, and Regional Service Education Agencies, must provide the most recent U.S. Census data for each of the individual LEAs served. For charter schools for which U.S. Census data is not available, eligibility will be based on a determination by the SEA, consistent with the manner in which the SEA determines the charter school LEA’s eligibility for the Title I allocations, that 20 percent of the students aged 5-17 in the LEA are from families with incomes below the Federal poverty line. Applicants must submit documentation from the State certifying official verifying that the SEA has determined this eligibility requirement is met for…
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